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Relief From Stress
From: The Mental Fitness Center
1. Make yourself rest more. If your sleep at nighttime is ragged, lie down at some point during the day. Even if it's only for 15 minutes, and even if you don't actually sleep - you're resting. And right now that's what your body craves.
2. Eat a balanced, healthy diet. Eat the way you KNOW you should. Avoid the foods that cause grief to your digestive system. Don't provoke it right now!
3. Ask for help. It isn't in the nature of a lot of people to ASK for help (writer included). We'd rather run ourselves down than to impose upon someone else. However, the imposition will be far greater on them if we succumb to stress. Either way, they're going to have to step in, so it might as well be before we flatline. (As a rule, the average person wants to help anyway and will jump at the opportunity.)
4. Exercise regularly. Walking is one of the best tonics around. Especially if you have a loved one (or at the very least a liked one) along with you. This could be a spouse, daughter, friend, bassett hound, or even a cat (it has to be on their terms, of course.)
Tennis, swimming, golf, yoga, fishing, volleyball, softball....the list goes on. Find something you enjoy doing and have fun! If you take up a new hobby, you'll knock off #s 4 and 5 from this list.
5. Learn something new. Something light. I wouldn't suggest taking on Italian or German at this time. Take up yoga, tennis, writing poetry, painting, needlepoint, woodcarving, finger pianting (!!!), anything fun and distracting.
6. Go on a cleaning spree! Clean out the garage, clean your house, or wash your car inside and out. Feeling really stressed out? Do all three. It's very therapeutic, and productive.
7. Talk things out with someone who will listen. Getting everything off of your chest can provide you with a great release.
8. Listen to music. I can officially say: "It's impossible to feel anything but good while listening to Motown classics." Let Smokey, The Temptations, Stevie, and The Supremes whisk you away. You'll be swinging, snapping, singing and smiling in no time flat. Don't have a Motown CD (jaw drops)? Shania, KISS, Usher, Montgomery Gentry, Melissa Ethridge, Janet Jackson (memo to world: get over it) - any will do nicely. Different music speaks to different people. Find the one that speaks your language and let it do so.
9. Want to cry? Go ahead, get it over with. Just don't do so before an audience. It isn't you at your best, after all.
10. Accept that you can't do everything and embrace the fact that you aren't perfect. A sheep is perfect - does everything she's supposed to do, when it's expected of her, won't "act up", doesn't get any complaints. Who wants to be a sheep?!
11. Take a nice long bath. Heaven.
Motown CD: $12.99
Bubble Bath: $4.99
Bubble Bath from Avon: $10.99
Listening to Motown while IN a bubble bath?
What stress?
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Stress can be thought of as a message from our central nervous system. It's telling us that enough is most definitely enough, and if we don't provide some relief, it's going down and it'll take every other system down with it!
Fun File:
Go rollerskating!
Doodle
Watch Andy Griffith
Bake Cookies
Eat Cookies
Hang out with a kid
Pet a cat
Get ice cream
Buy a Happy Meal
Start a Blog
Hug someone you love
Buy a comic book
Watch Tom & Jerry
Have a picnic
Go to a baseball game
Volunteer at a shelter
Spend a day at the zoo
Rent a comedy
Rent a Dracula movie
Rent all of Johnny Depp's movies
Rent all of Angelina's movies
Read Dean Koontz
Read more Dean Koontz
Start with "Watchers"
Buy a tabloid and a Coke
Chew Bubble gum
Watch "Iron Chef"
Watch Alton Brown
Read every singularly brilliant word David Feherety ever wrote
Disclaimer:
We are not physicians, although many of the articles on the website are authored by physicians. We do not claim that any of the articles or suggestions on this website will cure all ailments or problems. Many problems can be only treated with a doctor's care.
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